16K RAM should be enough for anybody

Occasionally, we can be so impatient with progress as we bemoan the lack of 3G in our iPhones or wait for that next Korean gadget to come across the Pacific. But sometimes it’s nice to have a look back and gain some perspective on just how far we’ve come. The good folks at TechEBlog are doing just that, with a tribute to the old-skool in the form of advertisements from decades ago. Hit the link for the rest of the ads…what was your favorite from back in the days?

Gal, D- for Spelling and F for content as I have no idea what you are saying. -You may need to dual boot in order to use Office 2k7?

daddybear

dude-

I had a commodore 64…

and we played PONG… the standalone game…

and I watched my first video on a betamax

-db

eJay

Bro I used to spank it to Virtual Valarie on my old skewl Packard Bell…

PC

In 1979, the cost to upgrade my Radio Shack TRS-80 Model I (Z80 processor) from 4K to 16K was $650. And that was just for the seven 16X1 RAM chips.

Matt

Tandy 1000, Biggest Radio Shack piece of junk ever!!!

http://www.myspace.com/tjhood TJHood

I recall when I was a kid, I played atari, thought it was the coolest thing ever, it was like bringing the arcade home without having to push quarters in right and left.

Then I got a Nintendo, man this was off the hook. One day one of my buddies was like man i’m getting a Super Nintendo for Christmas. I was like how can they possibly make the Nintendo any better, you are just making up names now adding Super to it..

From that point on I didn’t doubt the possibilites anymore of what would come next.

and the first computer I had in my home was a laptop the size of a suitcase, it actually looked like a suit case. Black and monochrome screen running some version of IBM DOS I think 5 1/4 drive, I think it even had like a 1200 baud modem which I had no idea what it was for as the internet wasn’t even in my mind. I think at that time there might have been bullitin board systems you could dial up but only few people knew of that stuff.

Nicholas Bashford

commodore 64… dig dug… you can’t beat that. hooked up to the 13″ tv. Oh the good old days.